synopsis

Future Weather is a character-driven drama about three generations of women navigating responsibility and self-fulfillment.

Lauduree is a teenage loner passionate about nature and worried about global warming. Greta, her grandmother, is a caustic nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. They're thrust into each other's lives when Lauduree's mother flees to pursue her long-held dream of being a make-up artist for the stars. Lauduree clings to the secluded rural trailer where she lives, but when she's caught shoplifting a compact flourescent lightbulb, she's forced to give up her carbon sequestration experiment and move to Greta's. In denial about Greta's impending plans to sell her house and move to Florida with her boyfriend Ed, Lauduree turns to the junior high science club, where she pushes her environmental anxieties to a dangerous extreme. Meanwhile, Greta, secretly daunted by commitment, begins using Lauduree as an excuse to sabotage her plans with Ed. As the two women struggle with the mother's disappearance, they inch closer to one another, finding brief moments of redemption and transcendence in an uncertain time.

With its humorous, authentic characters and exceptional cast, including Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams), Lili Taylor (I Shot Andy Warhol), William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption) and Perla Haney-Jardine (Kill Bill Vol. 2) as Lauduree, Future Weather expresses the pathos in saying goodbye to what we love. Written and directed by Jenny Deller and produced by Kristin Fairweather, the film was shot in the Philadelphia region in Summer 2010. It is currently in post-production. Look for it on the festival circuit in 2012.